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Princess Royal Visits 25th Malvern Spring Gardening Show

HRH The Princess Royal has accepted an invitation to visit the 2010 Malvern Spring Gardening Show, in its 25th anniversary year.

HRH The Princess RoyalHer Royal Highness will visit the Three Counties Agricultural Society’s Malvern Showground home in Worcestershire on Friday 7 May.

She will be met by the Lord Lieutenant for Worcestershire, Mr. Michael Brinton and Mrs Angela Brinton DL, and will tour the event with Three Counties Agricultural Society President, James Hervey-Bathurst CBE DL.

The Malvern Spring Gardening Show started life as a small regional flower show, and has grown to become one of the big top five gardening events in the country.

2010 is a special milestone for show organizers, the Three Counties Agricultural Society and the Royal Horticultural Society, and Her Royal Highness’s itinerary is likely to take in some of the birthday celebrations and features planned for this year.

It is hoped her visit will include a tour of the Show’s 25th Anniversary Garden, which at 676 square metres, is the biggest Show Garden ever to be built on the gardening show circuit.

The Society also plans to introduce the royal guest to some of the exhibitors who have been with the Show since the very beginning, including David Matthewman, who will be creating a specially commissioned ‘Birthday Cake’, cleverly worked in beautiful sweet peas.

The Princess Royal first visited the Showground in 1976, and served as TCAS President in 1981.

In 1986, she was in Malvern again to open the new Members Complex overlooking the Main Arena, and more recently, in 2006, she attended the National Pony Society’s 100th Summer Championship Show and the National Sheep Association Show, both taking place at the Showground on the same day.

Said Malvern Spring Gardening Show Manager, Doreen Smillie: “HRH The Princess Royal is no stranger to the Malvern Showground, and we are naturally delighted that she should choose to honour us with a visit in this special year.

We hope to introduce her to some of the many people who have supported the Show over the years, and have worked tirelessly, very often behind the scenes, to make it the success it is today.”

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For more information and/or pictures, please contact:

Sharon Gilbert – Press & PR Manager
Three Counties Agricultural Society
Telephone: 01684 584929 (direct dial)
E-mail: sharon@threecounties.co.uk

Released: 12/03/2010